Aleksiana lapra Podenas and Poinar 2009 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combination: Antocha lapra

Full reference: S. Podenas and G. O. Poinar. 2009. New crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111:470-492

Belongs to Aleksiana according to W. KrzemiƄski et al. 2021

See also Podenas and Poinar 2009

Sister taxon: Aleksiana rasnitsyni

Type specimen: Poinar B-D-10 #12, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)

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